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Exodus Women’s Conference “She Is Planted” Returns to Houston August 7–8, Expanding to Welcome 1,500 Women for Faith, Healing and Purpose at Fallbrook Church

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    July 27, 2026 (Houston Style Magazine) — HOUSTON — Houston knows a thing or two about surviving heat, but the Exodus Women’s Conference is preparing a different kind of August forecast: deep roots, living water and a strong chance of breakthrough.

After selling out its inaugural gathering in 2025, ‘Exodus’ returns Friday and Saturday, Aug. 7–8, 2026, with room for approximately 1,500 women—more than twice the nearly 700 participants organizers say attended last year. Hosted by Blueprint Church Pastor Falyn Davis at Fallbrook Church, the expanded conference will welcome women from Houston, across Texas and neighboring states for a weekend centered on faith, healing, identity, purpose and authentic community.

This year’s theme, “She Is Planted,” draws from Psalm 1:3 and the image of a tree rooted beside rivers of water—fruitful in season, resilient under pressure and unwilling to wither simply because life gets windy. The conference’s official invitation describes the woman who is planted as “rooted,” “established” and “unshaken,” promising worship encounters, transformational speakers, panels, breakout sessions, prayer and reflection.

“Exodus was created to remind women that they are not forgotten, broken or disqualified,” Davis said. “We believe women flourish when they become planted in God’s truth, community and purpose. This conference exists to create a space where women can heal, be set free, grow and fully step into who God created them to be.”

That message arrives at a timely moment. Women are often expected to be the family strategist, workplace problem-solver, emotional first responder, prayer warrior and keeper of everybody else’s calendar—sometimes before breakfast. Exodus offers permission to pause, breathe, receive and remember that strength is not the same thing as carrying everything alone.

For generations, women have served as the steady hands of faith communities, sustaining families, organizing ministries, mentoring younger women and turning prayer into public service. Exodus builds upon that tradition while making room for the conversations modern women are already having about anxiety, burnout, confidence, finances, friendship, motherhood, leadership and emotional health.

Headlining the 2026 Exodus Women’s Conference is nationally recognized trauma therapist, life coach, minister and author Dr. Anita Phillips. Her work focuses on the intersection of mental health, faith and culture, and her message that people were “created to flourish” fits naturally within a conference devoted to becoming spiritually rooted and emotionally whole.

Worship will be led by the Blueprint Worship Team, joined by special guest worship leader Taylor Butler of Change Church. Expanded breakout sessions will move beyond applause-worthy inspiration toward practical transformation, addressing relationships, identity, mental health, friendships, motherhood, personal finances, discipleship and leadership. The goal is not simply for attendees to leave excited Saturday evening, but equipped to live differently Monday morning.

“Women today are carrying unprecedented levels of pressure, burnout, comparison, anxiety and isolation,” Davis said. “Exodus exists to remind women they don’t have to walk through life alone and that God still has purpose, healing and growth for every season of their lives.”

The Exodus Women’s Conference will also feature additional leadership-focused sessions, limited scholarship opportunities and an expanded VIP experience, although VIP admission is already sold out. Beyond the weekend, organizers hope to connect women with church communities, mentors and discipleship relationships that continue after the lights dim and the final worship note fades.

The growth of Exodus Women’s Conference also carries a welcome Houston ripple effect. Attendees traveling into the city will support area hotels, restaurants, transportation providers and small businesses—proof that a faith gathering can feed the spirit while giving the local economy a little love, too.

General admission is $99. Registration remains open through July 31, 2026, or until capacity is reached. Fallbrook Church is located at 12512 Walters Road in Houston.

For women seeking renewal, clarity and a community that understands both the weight they carry and the purpose they possess, Exodus 2026 offers a compelling invitation: come as you are, release what has kept you uprooted and prepare to grow.

Because when a woman becomes planted in truth, nourished by faith and surrounded by sisterhood, flourishing is no longer a distant hope. It becomes her next season.

Event Details

Exodus Women’s Conference: “She Is Planted”

Dates: Friday–Saturday, Aug. 7–8, 2026
Location: Fallbrook Church, 12512 Walters Road, Houston, Texas 77014
General Admission: $99
Registration deadline: July 31, 2026, or until capacity is reached
Registration: Reserve a seat for Exodus Women’s Conference 2026

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Trump’s vaccine order is counterproductive and ‘wrong on so many levels,’ GOP lawmaker says

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(CNN) — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, an increasingly sharp critic of President Donald Trump, on Sunday called the president’s vaccine order to separate injections for measles, mumps and rubella “wrong on so many levels” because, among other things, it would require children to receive more shots.“Let’s just take it from the perspective of the parent,” Cassidy, a doctor who chairs the Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” show. “Now, instead of going to the doctor twice to get their child vaccinated, they have to go six times … Instead of mom or dad missing work twice, you know, coming out of their pocket, if you will, to take their child to the doctor, they have to miss work or take vacation or personal leave six times. This is inconvenient. It’s going to contribute to an increased loss of income.”“The president’s proposal is going to end up with more children being sick. And so who wants that? No one should want that,” Cassidy said.During a later appearance on ABC News’ “This Week,” the Louisiana senator said: “This is why the president’s poll numbers are down, because you’ve lost sight of affordability for the parent, you’ve lost sight of the convenience for the American family, you’ve lost sight of that which is driving higher costs in health care.”CNN has reached out the White House for a reaction to Cassidy’s criticism.Trump’s order says the combination vaccine that protects against measles, mumps and rubella, called MMR, “should be administered in three separate single-disease shots,” and all childhood immunizations should be given at separate medical visits.Immunologists and vaccine experts say there’s no valid reason to do that.“Nothing bad can happen from what we are doing,” Trump said while speaking in the Oval Office on Monday. “The worst thing that could happen would be nothing happens. We’re not going to lose anything.”The executive order marked the latest blow for Cassidy, who cast a deciding vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary despite deep concerns about his anti-vaccine views.Ahead of that confirmation vote, Cassidy secured a series of commitments from Kennedy — including that the two would have an “unprecedentedly close collaborative working relationship” and Kennedy would not seek to undermine the government’s vaccine policies.But Kennedy began testing that pact within months, overhauling the government’s main vaccine advisory panel and amplifying skepticism of key vaccine policies — all while downplaying what has grown into the worst measles outbreak in the country in decades.Their already-frosty relationship hit a breaking point late last year, after the abrupt firing of the then-head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kennedy’s subsequent push to revamp the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule.Kennedy’s allies later joined Trump in openly backing a primary challenge to Cassidy that successfully denied him renomination earlier this spring.Since then, Cassidy has shown far greater willingness to criticize Trump and Kennedy, opposing the president on key issues such as the Iran war and his effort to establish an “anti-weaponization” fund. Cassidy and Kennedy’s relationship is effectively non-existent, people close to the two men said, and the two have rarely spoken in the last several months.Still, Cassidy has stressed that despite feeling freer to express his views, his final months in the Senate are not meant to serve as a revenge tour.That did not prevent him on Sunday from lashing out at the president’s latest policy, which he has also done in a series of social media posts.“If it wasn’t so potentially tragic, you would break out laughing at a comment like that,” Cassidy, told CNN’s Jake Tapper about Trump’s claim that nothing would happen as a result of what experts say is a dramatic reshaping of US vaccine policy.“As a physician who has seen people either die or get seriously ill from diseases that can be prevented by vaccines, this has the potential to decrease the protection that a child would receive against diseases which can be deadly,” Cassidy said.He added that if Trump is looking to improve children’s health while helping parents with costs, “this is the wrong thing to do.”The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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